i n s t a l m e n t s ! They open their own wine-cel-
lars....
...what more does Kautsky want?...
122. Engels also speaks about co-operatives.
123. The f a i l u r e s of socialist co-operatives. N.B.
123. Centralised farming is !! “a b s o l u t e l y im-
possible”.
124. That is for the small ones, whereas the big ones
! ! ! !
are s o c i a l i s e d! It pays to use the steam
plough, etc.
129. The reactionaries also favour co-operatives.
PLANS OF OBJECTIONS TO F. HERTZ’S BOOK

α
“Definition of capitalism” (p. 10)!
β
M o r t g a g e s (pp. 24, 26, 28)
(Decentralisation)
γ
Engels’s mistake about America (p. 31)
δ
Proprietary interests in agriculture (pp. 2, 3).
T h e p e a s a n t e n t r e p r e n e u r.
(“Wortspiel”) (p. 4) (p. 5) and p. 8 9 .
Kleinbetrieb—and 
f a r m s 
with 
1-  
h i r e d
l a b o u r e r s (p. 6, Note 15)
There is no class antagonism between the Klein-
betrieb and the hired labourers (p. 6).
On subsidiary employment (p. 9)
ε
The big farm has no absolute superiority (p. 40) (p. 60)
(60-65)
Threshers: labour cheap in winter: p. 6 5
Crop yields in France p. 49.
The Kleinbetrieb does not shun machines p. 5 (indis-
criminate figures on France). Cf. 81 (widely??)
On the sale of milk: p. 113.
ζ
M. Hecht 68 and 79 et al. (“first-rate”)
Crop yields in East-Elbe and South Germany (66)
Auhagen: 70-71.
ϑ
Higher crop yields following the introduction of the
steam plough (67)
1  4: advantages of the steam plough!
PNMNQ


There are model farms among the latifundia in Aus-
tria: p. 1 5 (con Bulgakov)
America: absence of parcels allows greater use of
Con!
machines; no peasantry of such low standing (p. 36)
and 4 3, 4 4.
ι
Con. Kleinbetrieb uses relatively more labour (74).
Most peasants have primitive implements.
The peasant’s labour rent: pp. 8 9 -9 0 (!!)
Small farmer resorts to collateral employment: 9 1
cf. 9 .
Growth in the number of holders in France 52 (??)
In France there is no rural industry 53 (??)
κ
Distortion on parcel farms (reduction in number) 53.
Refutation of Kautsky’s assertion on wage labour
among small peasants 55.
λ
Hertz on N.—on etc. (p. 12).
(Cf. Chernov)
Is the money economy the best way? (p. 20)
P a r c e l l e a s e h o l d s: the goal of capitalism:
p. 1.
Industrialisation of production: Kautsky’s
groundless hopes (87-88)
σ
Demands must be immediately attainable—con social
ownership of land (p. 7)
p. 10: the economic usefulness of capitalism is still
being debated.
p. 14. Perhaps socialism takes the same attitude
towards capitalism as Russian capitalism does to the
patriarchal economy.
Only a greater share!
Nachklang naturrechtlichen views: pp. 72-73.
Abolition of the antithesis between town and country:
In agriculture, the lever of self-interest is indispen-
sable: 95.
What socialism will do with the employees: 93.
On social revolution: 105.
123: Centralised farming is a b s o l u t e l y impos-
sible (!!)
PPNNMMNNQQ
PPNNMMNNQQ

V. I. LENIN

τ
“The main task of socialism” is to sustain the co-opera-
tives (p. 21) and p. 8 9.
124: Co-operatives f o r t h e s m a l l o n e s, !!
a n d s o c i a l i s a t i o n f o r t h e b i g o n e s.
Wine-growers’ co-operatives 120
Co-operatives: “entering” socialism (111).
Number of members in co-operatives (112)
Dairy co-operatives (112)
To τ
Engels on co-operatives
d i s t o r t i o n 1  .

α
“theory”
β
mortgages
γ
Engels on America
δ
on the peasantry and versus the proletariat
ε
large- and small-scale production
ζ
Hecht, Auhagen, etc.
ϑ
admission of superiority of the large
ι
admission of overwork in Kleinbetrieb
κ
Hertz on French data
λ
Hertz and Narodism
=
σ
—attitude to socialism
τ
—co-operatives
Written in June-September 1901
First published in 1932
Printed from the original
in Lenin Miscellany XIX